“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.

You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Greatness, it’s all in the details.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.